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batman1978   04-13-2009 at 12:43:29 AM

Hello

I have a FX5200 AGP video card with 128ram.

The card has a sticker that says it has 128ram, i bought it retail new as a card having 128ram.
I remember using it as having 128ram, i ditched it way backt but i wanted to install it back on another pc.

Problem is it reports having 64ram

On pc boot it says 64ram, as well on windows (obviously)


i dont know why or how this happened.

what i have tried is:

did the popular bios flashing to switch from a 5200 to 5500 and used a rom file of a 5500 128mb generic card

it works, card is now flashed.. but card keeps working with 64mb of video memory

Card works fine on games and all, no problems at all. its just that memory thing im trying to fix

(other than this bios flashing i just did, i have never overclocked this card)




Does anyone know what can I try to fix it ??

I have looked on the Nibitor 5.0 rom bios editor but i see no option to modify memory at all.


p.s. of course I have set my motherboard bios to handle up to 256mb memory cards

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Crashman   04-13-2009 at 03:57:16 AM
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batman1978 wrote :

Hello

I have a FX5200 AGP video card with 128ram.

The card has a sticker that says it has 128ram, i bought it retail new as a card having 128ram.
I remember using it as having 128ram, i ditched it way backt but i wanted to install it back on another pc.

Problem is it reports having 64ram

On pc boot it says 64ram, as well on windows (obviously)


i dont know why or how this happened.

what i have tried is:

did the popular bios flashing to switch from a 5200 to 5500 and used a rom file of a 5500 128mb generic card

it works, card is now flashed.. but card keeps working with 64mb of video memory

Card works fine on games and all, no problems at all. its just that memory thing im trying to fix

(other than this bios flashing i just did, i have never overclocked this card)




Does anyone know what can I try to fix it ??

I have looked on the Nibitor 5.0 rom bios editor but i see no option to modify memory at all.


p.s. of course I have set my motherboard bios to handle up to 256mb memory cards



It's probably a damaged card. If one chip looses a connection or goes bad, some controllers can disable an entire bank.

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rags_20   04-13-2009 at 04:08:59 AM
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Maybe it has 64MB RAM and shares 64. Just throw it away (dustbin) and get a 3850 AGP.

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